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We pass through this world but once. Few tragedies can be more ext

We pass through this world but once. Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within. – Stephen Jay Gould, The Mismeasure of Man

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Civilization is what makes you sick. – Paul Gauguin

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Progress may have been all right once, but it went on too long… – Ogden Nash, “Come, Come, Kerouac! My Generation is Beater Than Yours,” New Yorke

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The path of civilization is paved with tin cans. – Elbert Hubbard

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The dying process begins the minute we are born, but it accelerates during dinner parties. – Carol Matthau

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